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LEAD Pakistan, Inspiring leadership for a sustainable world | www.lead.org.pk | [email protected]

Directory ofLEAD Pakistan Fellows

1995 to 2013

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Introduction

Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) Pakistan is a non-profit organizationworking since 1995 to create and sustain a global network of leaders who are committed to

promote change towards the patterns of sustainable development that is economically sound,

environmentally responsible and socially equitable in line with Agenda 21.

LEAD came to Pakistan with a unique idea the Leadership Development Program (LDP)

that is its flagship program. The Rockefeller Foundation funded the LDP till 2002. However,

realizing its success and impact, LEAD sustained LDP without external funding. LEAD also

exists in other countries with LDP and now it is a vibrant global organization with 14 country

and regional programs in Asia, Africa, North & South America and Europe.

Over 18 years, LEAD has produced annual cohorts of mid to senior level managers in public,

private and civic sectors with commitment and skills to ensure that development is

sustainable. The internationally linked LDP has resulted into a Fellows Network with over 180

members nationally, linked to more than 2000 members across the world. Its primary

purpose is to create a critical mass of well-placed professionals in various sectors who can

ensure that economic, social and political development is environmentally sensitive in line

with Agenda 21.

Since 1996, LEAD Pakistan has launched 17 cohort programs and this directory contains the

information of all our fellows who have graduated since 1995 from our core training

programme in Leadership for Sustainable Development where they gain the skills andknowledge to make them cross-sectoral leaders in their own communities and on the world

stage. They come from all sectors of society, and are united by a shared capability and

willingness to address sustainability challenges in their different countries across the globe.

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Salmanuddin Shah

Designation: Programme Manager

Organization: Focus Humanitarian Assistance Pakistan

Cohort: 17

Work Address: Level 9, Serena Bussiness Complex Opposite Convention

Centre Khayaban-e-Suhewardy, Islamabad.

Work Phone: +92-51-2072500

Work Fax: +92-51- 2072551

Email Address: [email protected]

Profile

Mr. Salmanuddin Shah has done is Masters in International Relations from Karachi University

and is currently working in Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS) Pakistan. He has a vast

experience of working in Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Response related activities

and believes that sustainable development can be achieved through tripartite action and

cooperation between the state, civil society and the business organizations. His expertise

includes Programme Development and Resource Mobilization,Project Management and

Monitoring, Evaluation and Research.

He has previously worked in Agha khan Education Services Pakistan in the capacity of a

teacher and Coordinator. He has conducted and organized many trainings and workshops

reaching the community teachers of the third world country and built their capacity to

provide quality education which supports critical consciousness, intellectual competency

and high moral values.

Mr. Salman has taken part in numerous international conferences and workshops including

Monitoring and Evaluation in Unstable Environment from Channel Research Belgium at

Dulikhal- Katmandu Nepal, DIPECHO V Lesson Learns Workshop in Dhaka - Bangladesh and

Climate Change Adaptation conference 2012 on behalf of Lead Pakistan in Vietnam.
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]

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Asim Jaleel Abro

Designation: Deputy Regional Program Manager

Organization: USAID's Agribusiness Project

Cohort: 17

Work Address: B-58, Street 4, Hamdard Society, Airport Road, Sukkar,

Sindh

Work Phone: 9271-5804603-4


Profile

Asim Abro is a development professional having diversified experience in community

development, who has been working with prominent development sector organizations of

Pakistan since ten years. Over past five years he has been working on management positions

in reputed social sector organizations including TVO, LEAD Pakistan, SDPI and SPO. Since

2011 he is associated with USAIDs Agribusiness Project/Agribusiness Support Fund as

Deputy Regional Program Manager. He closely works with agricultural departments, private

sector agribusinesses, farmer groups and associations, universities and research institutes,

and other relevant stakeholders in region, through consultative process identify potential

areas of agribusiness intervention and development support to be delivered by the ASF/UAP;Sell and promote ASF/UAPs concept and mandate in province / region.

Academically Mr. Abro has done Masters in Sociology and MBA from University of Sindh,

Jamshoro. He is student of M.Phil in Sociology at University of Karachi.

Mr. Abro before Joining UAP Project, was working as Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting

Specialist at SPO. During his one year association (2010-2011) he managed dozens of

projects funded by PPAF, CIDA and UNICEF in collaboration with government departments,

international donors and local communities. Before joining SPO, Mr. Abro had been associated

with LEAD Pakistan as Projects Coordinator for Sindh. During his one year association, he

managed number of projects funded by Packard Foundation, SEF and USAID.

Mr. Abro has written number of articles in English and local newspapers on social-economic,

environment and developmental issues of Pakistan, with special emphasis on water issues. He

has extensive experience in research. He had assisted a resettlement study commissioned by

Asian Development Bank in Sindh and Punjab Provinces for assessing socio-economic impacts

of people in response of a road-widening project.

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Saleem Shaikh

Designation: Climate Change/Development Correspondent

Organization: AlertNet Climate, Reuters News Agency

Cohort: 17

Work Address: House No. 2019, Street 71, Ground Floor, I-10/1,

Islamabad

Work Phone: 03002106662


ProfileSaleem Shaikh is a climate change and development journalist. With over 10 years

extensive background in print, online and broadcast journalism, he has served at different

media organisations of national and global reputation.

Working at The News, Dawn newspapers, Geo News TV and DawnNews TV, Mr. Shaikh has

published hundreds of exclusive stories, many of them investigative, on development,

environment, renewable energy, agriculture, irrigation, health, water, economy, sanitation

and gender issues.

At present, he works as climate change and development correspondent from Pakistan forLondon-based global media outlet Reuters climate change news portal, accessed by

millions a week for reading stories on global humanitarian and development issues.

He has some fellowships to his credit for his outstanding contribution in development

journalism. Currently, he is media fellow at the WaterAid-UK, UNFCCC and fellow at Lead-

Pakistan.

He has attended a number national, regional and global media trainings and conferences to

present Pakistans status on different socio-economic, environment and development

issues.

He was awarded two silver medals for his outstanding academic performance in media

studies programme at the University of Sindh, Pakistan.

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Mir ShaiMazar Baloch

Designation: Principal Staff Officer to Vice

Chancellor/Director

Organization: University Advancement/ Financial Aid

University of Balochistan, Quetta.

Cohort: 17

Work Address: University of Balochistan, Sariab Road, Quetta

Work Phone: 0092-81-9211317

Work Fax: 0092-81-9211277


Profile

Mr. Mir ShaiMazar is an Anchor Person on PTV Bolan, At the same time work as Principal

Staff Officer to Vice Chancellor at University of Balochistan. On PTV Bolan he has

conducted various programs on international Days related to environment & Sustainable

development including other Social Issues. He has conducted program on Earth Hour, UN

World Water Day, Earth Day, International Migratory Bird Day, International Day for

Biological Diversity (World Biodiversity Day), UN World Environment Day, International

Mountain Day and many others. He is serving as Principal Staff Officer with the University

of Baluchistan since 2008 and has also been acting as a visiting faculty to carry out

research and produce publications, or other research outputs, in line with personal

objectives agreed in the Staff review process. Mir ShaiMazar s pervious experiences include

Assistant Director, General/ Recruitment and HR, Admin Officer CASVAB/ Assistant

Registrar Academic and editor at Monthly Balucea. Mir ShaiMazhar has also worked with the

Association of Pakistan against the introduction of multi metering on the phone numbers of

ISPs in 1997 when internet was relatively new in Pakistan, The campaign forced the

government to withdraw multi metering from Dial up connection of net numbers. He has

also participated in INSPIRE 2010 (International Strategic Partnership In Research and

Education) 23rdNov to 25th At Islamabad, INSPIRE aims to significantly strengthen

academic and research partnerships between UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and

HEIs in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan. Mr. Mir ShaiMazar

is a post graduate in Business Administration in Human Resources from University of

Balochistan. Mir ShaiMazaris alumni of PUAN (PakistanU.S. Alumni Network ) and visited

USA on IVLP (International Visitor Leadership Program) on Role of Spokespersons in the

United States.

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Shabina Gulzar

Designation: Designation District Coordinator

Organization: Communication for Effective Social Services Delivery)

Cohort: 17

Profile

Shabina Gulzar has been working in the development sector for the last 6 years including 3

years in water sector. Currently, Shabina is working for CESSD (Communication for

Effective Social Services Delivery) a CIDA funded Project as a District Coordinator in Abbottbad with sector specific approach with the basic objective to strengthen the communities

and to develop strong coordination and communication channels for better delivery of basic

social services. Her interest lies in the social areas of rural water sector like community

mobilization, women empowerment and water equity along with that the engineering

aspect of water sector. Shabina has was also been elected as a District councilor in Local

Government election in 2005 and has worked as a member MAJA (UNDP) project Musalihati

Jirga at district level. Shabina has worked for two years as a member of women crisis

centre in Abbottabad and is a member of Local organization Sohni Dharti working for

orphans.

Ms. Shahina holds a Masters degree in English from university of Peshawar.

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Kashmala Kakakhel

Designation: Project Manager, CDKN

Organization: LEAD Pakistan

Cohort: 17

Profile

Kashmala is currently working with LEAD Pakistan as Project Manager for Climate

Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) which supports decision-makers in designing and

delivering climate compatible development. She is managing a range of projects inBangladesh, Nepal, India and Pakistan; issues range from developing M&E tools for

Community Based Adaptation, building a Framework of Loss & Damage for Least Developed

Countries, to developing policy briefs for country delegations to the International Climate

Negotiations and undertaking research studies on concerns of Climate Migration.

When she joined LEAD in June 2009, among other Research projects, she also managed

Cohort 14. Prior to LEAD Pakistan, she was working with Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy.

Her publications include: Government-CSOs Partnerships; towards promoting a PPP

Framework, Corporate Philanthropy in Pakistan; survey of public listed companies,

Collaboration between Government and Civil Society Organisations in Pakistan and Goingbeyond Business; intelligent corporate philanthropy.

Kashmala holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Economics from London School of Economics.

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Muhammad Kashif

Designation: Financial Advisor Special Projects

Organization: Grant Thornton Pakistan

Cohort: 17

Profile

Mr. Muhammad Kashif is a university graduate and member of Institute of Chartered

Accountants of Pakistan, Institute of Corporate Secretaries of Pakistan and Pakistan Institute o

public and Finance Accountants. He is working as Manager, Specialist Advisory Services at GraThornton Pakistan. He has vast experience in Energy sector and has worked on mega energy

projects of Pakistan. He aspires to utilize his potential and expertise for combating climate

change challenges of Pakistan by greening the energy sector of Pakistan.

Mr. Kashif has successfully completed more than 80 consultancy assignments for clients from

various sectors. He has accomplished financial modeling of seven power projects - value

exceeding US$ 987 million and capacity exceeding 1,017MW.

Mr. Kashif has extensive experience in Oil & Gas and Power sector at strategic and policy level

and has worked on 26 assignments ranging from preparation of feasibilities and business plans

to conducting due diligence for the acquisition of running and sick project for different clients.

Worked as member of financial advisory team working for the arrangement of finances from

Overseas Private Investments Corporation (OPIC) for LNG terminal and coordinated with OPIC

teams and consultants conducting due diligence of the business plan for the project.

Besides this he is also playing his role for the improvement governance of the public and priva

sector organizations being a Member of Standing Committees of Lahore Chamber of Commerc

& Industry on Governance and Consumer Rights.

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Mustapha Lotia

Designation: Director Business Risk Management

Organization: NADRA

Cohort: 17

Profile

Mr. Mustapha Lotia is a result oriented Information Technology Professional with 10+ years

of experience. A Seasoned professional in areas of I.T Infrastructure Strategy Planning,

Enterprise Application deployments, BCP/DRP, I.T Security, Project Management, Network

Communications, Data Center Design and Operations.

Mr. Lotia is apt at envisaging large scale infrastructure disaster recovery and business

continuity plans. Mr. Lotia has exceptional financial negotiation, commercial evaluation

skills Substantial knowledge of retail & corporate banking products, Alternate Delivery

Channels, Treasury products, PCI-DSS, Basel II, ISO 27002 & ALM concept.

Mr. Lotia has experience of Core Banking Infrastructure migration with local and

multinational Banks. Currently, he is Deputy General Manager, Business risk management

at NADRA. His previous experiences include, Head of IT Security & Risk Management at

Faysal Bank, Senior Project Manager / Group Information Security Officer at SAMBA Bank,

Head of Network Communication & Security at Meezan Bank etc. Mr. Lotias consultancy

experience includes Providing I.T Security consultancy to M/s Commtel Systems clients on

various domains including Network architecture, ERP deployment planning, Geo-located

systems and Billing applications. He has Conduct trainings for Institute of Bankers Pakistan

on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning. He has also provided I.T

consultancy to M/s LEAD Pakistan in revamp of their IT infrastructure applications.

Mr. Mustapha Lotia holds a Bachelor degree of Computer Science. BSc (Hons) from LUMS,

Pakistan.

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Ms. Rabia Zafar

Designation: Research Scholar,

Organization: Earth Sciences and Engineering Department,

Imperial College London, London, UK

Assistant Professor,

Cohort: 17Profile

Ms. Rabia started her professional career as a Lecturer with Sardar Bahadur Khan Womens

University teaching subjects including Alkaloids chemistry, Spectroscopy, Carbohydrate

chemistry, Organic Synthetic chemistry. Later she was promoted as Assistant professor in

the Department of Environmental Sciences. She is currently chairperson of Department of

Environmental Sciences in her University. She is teaching subjects such as Natural

Resource management, Environmental Monitoring, Environmental Chemistry,

Environmental Impact Assessment, Applied Ecology and Disaster Management. She is

establishing first comprehensive research laboratories in the field of Environmental

Sciences in the University. She is also developing EIA curricula on tertiary level institutes

under the National Impact Assessment Program.

Ms. Rabia is working as a Higher education commission Focal person for the program of

Virtual Education Project Pakistan (VEPP). She has conducted various workshops/seminars

via this program. She is technical In-charge of the High technology instruments in the

Science departments of the SBK Womens university. She has conducted various internal

verification audits for the scientific equipments in the University. She is also member of

Internal Inspection Committee for the new installations, infrastructure projects and

purchases.

She extensively worked on Soil Restoration project in Australia. Currently, she is working

on climate change impact studies in Balochistan. She is also working on the incorporation

of climate change content at primary and secondary school curricula in Balochistan.

Further to that Ms. Rabia has been involved in different awareness raising programs and

community work with students to promote greenery and social awareness among students

of the university and schools. As part of community work she has planted more than 300

plants and 50 trees within and outside the university premises to provide shadow to the

people and natural habitat for the birds, while avoiding the use of expensive glass fibers.

Being a stack-holder in the field of Environmental sciences, she is also involved in air

quality monitoring program of Quetta city.

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Amir Bandara

Designation: Director

Organization: Hayyat farms

Cohort: 17

Profile

Born in an Agrarian family in the rural setting of Southern Punjab, Amir is a 25 years old

farmer who has a first hand knowledge and experience of Agriculture and Dairy Farming.He is proud to have such type of and excellent profession which is feeding the humanity.

The center point of his efforts is to promote an empower people of rural areas through

education and moral uplift.

Aamir got his Higher Secondary School Certificate from Government College Sahiwal and

his Graduation Degree from Bahaudin Zakria University (BZU) Multan. He has also attended

training sessions on agriculture farming, drip irrigation, tunnel farming and dairy farm

management from different public and private institution.

He served as Member of District Sports and Youth Development council, President of Water

and Sanitation Community Organization and various District level committees like District

Kitchen Gardening Program Committee by Government of the Punjab Agriculture

Department, District Price Control Committee by Government of the Punjab Industries,

Mines and Minerals Department, District Aman (Peace) Committee by Government of the

Punjab Home Department, and District Agriculture Committee by Government of the

Punjab.

Aamir is attached with Nestle Pakistan as Commercial Development Farmer and have vast

experience in agricultural farimg. His ambition is to be a part of a multi-lingual,

Multicultural and Multi-religious activities.

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Qaisar Jamali

Provincial Coordinator

UNESCO

Profile

Mr. Qaiser Jamali has 15 years experience in social and community development in

Baluchistan, strong coordination and good relationship with government, nongovernmental

and donor agencies. During his association with different organizations, Mr. Jamali hascontributed significantly to poverty alleviation through community-driven development,

especially by mobilizing local communities to form community organization. He has at

various stances promoted the development of local community capacity to respond to their

own self-identified needs, concerns and aspirations for a more sustainable approach over

the long-term.

Presently working at UNESCO as Provincial Coordinator Baluchistan, his responsibilities

include monitoring and evaluation of all UNESCO funded project. His previous experiences

include Project officer UNESCO, Provincial Director for Baluchistan National Education

Foundation (NEF),Hub General Manager NCHD andfive and half years experience of

effectively managing overall administrative and financial matters of Human Development

Support Unit (National Development for Human Development) Jaffarabad.

Mr. Qaiser possess excellent and strong management, monitoring & evaluation, research

and interpersonal communication skills having knowledge of local languages Urdu, Balochi

(mother tongue), Seraiki, Punjabi and Sindhi acquainted with Pashto and Persian. He has

the ability of interacting with the local community as well as with the donor and

government agencies.

Mr. Qaisers expertise includes project development, implementation, monitoring and

evaluation, financial and administrative management, development awareness and trainingmaterials, counseling, motivation, conflict resolution.

Dr. Habib is a motivational speaker and has delivered presentations in many organizations

as invited speaker on Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Time Management,

Change Management, Leadership skills, Scientific Proposal Writing Skills and Enterprise in

Bio-Sciences.

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Mrs. Abida Mahmood

Designation: Administrator

Organization: Qurban & Suraya Welfare trust

Cohort: 16

Work Address: Walton Road Lahore Canntt

Work Phone: 042 589966- 042 5724845

Email Address: [email protected],

Profile

Mrs. Abida Mahmood is a UK certified Teacher and has spent 12 years teaching and training

at multi ethnic and multi cultural higher secondary level in UK. She is settled in Lahore

Pakistan with the vision of imparting quality teacher training at her institute, Qurban &

Suraya Welfare trust. The trust aims at providing quality education at the lowest possible

cost especially for women. She believes that nations whose women are educated are more

competitive and more prosperous than nations where the education of women is forbidden

or ignored. Empowering women can lead to active participation of educated women is

essential to the spread of thriving civil societies, responsive and representativegovernments, coping with climate changes, and stabilizing economic growth.

Mrs. Abida is trustee of Qurban & Surraya Educational trust and works voluntarily with

other institutions. She has presented many papers nationally and internationally and

represented Pakistan at the Geneva IBE conference in September 2004.

Mrs. Abida is General Secretary Pakistan Education Watch, Member Focus Pakistan,

Member SPELT (society of Pakistan English language teachers), Member NATE UK (national

association for teachers of English) & member IATEFL (International association of teachers

of English as a foreign language)

Mrs. Abida has also written 2 books, teachers hand book and a teachers journal, papers

written and presented- 7 habits of highly effective teachers, what works for teachers, 101

teaching ideas, bringing books alive, teacher training in Qurban & Surraya educational

trust, status of women in Pakistan, ICT in Qurban & Surraya Educational trust, Impact of

teachers training on teachers.

She spends summer months training in UK every year where she spreads awareness about

environmental issues in her local community and nationally.

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Ms. Afia Salam

Designation: Programme Coordinator, Sindh

Organization: Imran Khan Foundation

Cohort: 16

Work Address:

Work Phone: +92-300-9223019


Profile

Ms. Afia Salam is a journalist having over three decades of experience of print and

electronic journalism. Started career as a columnist in Jasarat and Leader, a Karachi

eveninger, writing a weekly column on cricket, first ever time by a woman. She Joined the

Star, eveninger of Karachi, worked as the editor of The Cricketer, then Wings, a defense

and Aviation monthly, and Energy Update, Pakistans first magazine dedicated to the

energy sector.Withexperience of Urdu and English journalism/advertising, working

for/writing in some of Pakistans leading publications like The Dawn, Star, The Cricketer,

News line, Aurora, Slogan. She has also served as a Creative head of Blazon, Blitz-DDB and

Argus Advertising agencies. She has been dealing with event management, media relations

for clients of respective agencies, as well as an independent Media Relations consultant.She has served as a Senior Copy Editor at Dawn news, Pakistans first English television

channel and was in charge of copy bulletin and reports copy. She was also the Content

manager for Daily Breakfast at Dawn, the morning show of the channel and was also Head

of the Culture Desk, responsible for the art & entertainment segment. Ms. Afia Salam also

headed the Education, Communications and Outreach unit at IUCN Pakistan.

Currently, she is working as Programme Coordinator, Sindh, Imran Khan Foundation A

development organization working in post flood relief reconstruction and rehabilitation

activities. She has also facilitated media training workshops for environmental journalists

on behalf of IUCN, Pakistan Press Foundation and UNESCO, and LEAD Pakistan andIntermedia. Ms Afia has worked for the Environmental sector while working as the

Coordinator, Communications and Outreach, IUCN-Pakistan. (International Union for

Conservation of Nature)

Ms. Afia Salam is Vice President, Sindh Chapter, Citizens Media Commission of Pakistan, a

media watchdog body, Councilor for Helpline Trust, a consumer rights organization, Advisor

for National Forum for Environment and Health, Associate for HASWA, Healthcare and

Social Welfare Association, Trustee for Saneeya Hussain trust.

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Ms. Amina Khan

Designation: Gender Equality Officer

Organization: Citizen Engagement for Social Services DeliveryProject

Cohort: 16

Work Phone: 0345-9004130


Profile

Ms. Amina Khan belongs from district Swat. She is a law graduate, master degree in

political science and carries 15 years experience in the social sector. She started her

carrier as Social organizer and later on worked in various capacities with different national

and International level organizations like Environmental Protection Society, Swat, Federal

Bureau of Statistics Department, EIROP, Peshawar, ECI, Malakand Rural Development

Project, Japan Sponsored Project for on-farm water Management, Swat , Tarbella Water

Shed Management Project , Environmental Rehabilitation Project, Swat.

She was elected in both rounds of local government elections, as a district council member.

She is well educated, having politically sound knowledge and experience; knows how to

network in the best position to meet strategic needs of women. As a Chairperson of Social

welfare and Women Development Monitoring committee, she always facilitated the councilmembers to become aware of existing gender issues and gaps, with full confidence and

action points, even in the worse days of Swat. She was one of the key members to

facilitate the process of Citizen Community Boards funds.

Ms. Amina is also a member of Sarhad Awami Forestry Itehad (SAFI), Division Behrain.

Currently she is working in Citizen Engagement for Social Service Delivery, Project (CESSD)

in 11 districts of Khyber Pukhtoonkha. As a Gender Equality Specialist, she has planned

organized and trained thousands of women and men from Pakistani CBOs, NGOs, elected

and appointed officials and religious leaders. Her one of the contribution is to initiate and

develop communication booklet Education, Water Management, Health and Hygiene andIslam, from gender equality perspectives to help address and understand some of the

large disparities between men and women and to promote womens participation in

decision making.

Ms. Amina has dynamic qualities of leadership and her passion is to promote the

development process with the principle of social inclusion and gender just.

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Dr. Seeme Malik

Designation: Assistant Professor

Organization: COMSATS

Cohort: 16

Work Address: Park Road, Chak Shahzad

Work Phone: 0322 5025 047


Profile

Dr. Seeme Mallick is an Environmental Economist. She completed her PHd in Environmental

Economics, Graduate School of Environment, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia. 2003.

She along with two consultants have prepared the draft National Climate Change Policy for

Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Environment for approval in February 2011. She has

contributed to writing the Energy Section for Climate Change Mitigation, Vulnerable Areas for

Climate Change Adaptation, Technology Transfer and Local Financial Needs Section. Also, the

Action Plans based on National Climate Change Policy are under preparation and will be

reflected as a separate research publication by her. She also prepared the chapter sections on

Water and Energy in UNDP. 2011. Pakistan Human Development Report Human Security.

A Working Paper on Environment, Energy and Climate Change in Pakistan: Challenges,

Implications and Required Responses was also written by Dr. Seeme Mallick and Abeer

Masood for Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Center. 2011

Dr. Seeme has 20+ years of work experience in the academia and development sector. She

has worked for NGOs like IUCN, SDPI, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Pakistan Program;

Mahbub Haq Human Development Centre ETC. Dr. Seeme is also a visiting faculty at Quaid-e-

Azam University, International Islamic University, University of Arid Agriculture, Rawalpindi

and Federal Urdu University Islamabad. Very recently she has joined LEAD Pakistan as

Coordinator Research where she is responsible for Design Research Projects with focus on

Climate Change and Natural Resource Management for South Asia, particularly, Pakistan, in

addition to Asian and Australasian Countries.

Dr. Seeme has been nominated to the position of Member Core Group of Experts on Climate

Change, Sub-Committee on Finance, Ministry of Environment, Government of Pakistan. She

is also the recipient USAID/MINFA Private Sector Agribusiness Scholarship for Masters Studies

in USA. September 1990 to July 1992. She is also a member of Pakistan Society of

Development Economists (PSDE) and Member of Council of Social Sciences Pakistan (COSS).

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Mr. Asif Lehri

Designation: Manager Health Projects

Organization: BRSP, Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund

Cohort: 16

Work Address: BRSP, Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund

Work Phone: 0333-7877348/0333-7972308


Profile

Asif Lehri belongs from district Khuzdar of Balochistan having a professional degree in political

sciences. He started his career in 2001 by participating in a community Development Course

and then established "The Learners Academy of Intellectual Development" where he was

engaged in teaching youth and activism and focus worked with youth for providing them

direction and importance of a purpose full life. He joined Institute for Development Studies

and Practices (IDSP-Pakistan) as fellow and launched first "Development Studies Course" in

2003 at national level which was based on theory and practices and supervised the practices

of all the learners of the course, later on he established an "Information and Learning Center"in district Khuzdar with the support of IDSP and worked on four major components (youth

development, provision of skills, working on public private partnership and opened up a

library for providing the education to the youth).

Asif Lehri was appointed a field coordinator in Education Policy and Planning project supported

by ESRA in 8 district of Baluchistan where he developed the five years education plans of

these districts. He served as a focal person Local Government Program supported by National

Democracy Institute where he trained the public representatives of Local government. He

served as a focal person by the organization to manage a youth development program of

British Council. He also rendered his services as a Manager of core program of IDSP "Learners

and Community partnership Program". He has also worked Imran Khan Foundation for a short

period. Currently he is working with BRSP as Regional General Manager.

Mr. Asif Lehri wants to work with the communities and to learn from them. As an activist,

community work is his passion. He wants to introduce different methods of irrigation and

agriculture; focus would be organic farming and awareness rising on organic farming. He also

has plans to introduce Bio Gas system in the communities and establishing the Olive plant for

the communities.
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Syed Ali Hasnain

Designation: Manager Policy-Freshwater

Organization: WWF Pakistan

Cohort: 16

Work Phone: 92-300-8429374


Profile

Ali has twelve years of work experience, attained in Pakistan and abroad involving

extensive fieldwork related to environment, energy and sustainable development. Further

he has been exposed to trainings and field work around the world (Australia, UK,

Sweden, Bangladesh, Nepal, South Africa, Kenya, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Philippines

etc.)which has helped him gain valuable professional acumen. While performing his duties

he interacted with political governments (provincial and national), bureaucracy, civil

society, corporate sector and regulatory regimes, helping him realize how developmental

issues are pursued in different tendency systems. He also engaged with them on issues

relating to environmental laws, policies and regulations.

In his present job with WWF - Pakistan, Al is practicing and professing environmental and

developmental considerations and safeguards relating to water food energy nexus

security(integrated river basin management, infrastructure, stewardship, conservation,

Climate Change) that translate further into food and energy security in the context of

environment and development.

His proffesional experience is supplemented by a throughout distinction career in education

comes in well together and equips him with all the necessary skills that are required for the

work that he does. His education is an impeccable combination of Policy(Masterof

Environment and Sustainability- Monash University Australia), Science (Bachelors in

Mechanical Engineering UET Lahore) and Management (Master of Business

Administration Punjab University).

In terms of academic career, he has been teaching since 2006. During his one and a half

year stay in Monash University (Australia) He taught Sustainable Development in a

Globalizing World (3rdyear), Environmental Policy and Management (2ndyear) and

Environmental Hazards and Human Vulnerability (1styear)

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Dr. Moin Uddin

Designation: Director Corporate Strategy

Organization: TPSAn Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development

Cohort: 16

Work Phone: 92-301-856-9504


Profile

Dr. Moin Uddin has a diverse cross functional experience in project management,monitoring and evaluation, research, organizational development and training. He is also adistinguished Coach, Consultant and Trainer.

Dr. Moin has a PhD in Strategy, Programme and Project Management, Skema BusinessSchool, France, MBA with distinction from the Institute of Business Administration Karachiand Bachelors from Punjab University in Economics and Statistics. He also has one yearPost Graduate Diploma in WTO and IPR from International Islamic University, Islamabad,Pakistan. Moin is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) of ProjectManagement Institute (PMI), USA. Dr. Moin is a HEC Approved Supervisor for supervisingresearch at MS and PhD level and also a reviewer for International Journal of ProjectManagement Published in collaboration with the Association for Project Management (APM)

and the International Project Management Association (IPMA).

Dr. Moin worked as Senior Investment Analyst at Fauji Foundation Pakistan and PrincipalConsultant in Infrastructure Development Company (IDC) (Pvt) Ltd. He was lead in projectplanning, negotiation and signing of various projects, agreements, partnerships and jointventures at Fauji Foundation and IDC.

At present, working with TPS- Subsidiary of Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development asDirector for Corporate Strategy (South and Central Asia). He is responsible for developinginstitutional partnerships, Programme Development and Stakeholder Coordination. Dr. Moinis a key lead for corporate social responsibility program for South and Central Asia. As aConsultant, Coach & trainer Dr. Moin has been affiliated with various multinationalcompanies, multilateral organizations, Government and Non Government Organizations.Client list include AKDN, NRSP, NISTE, Norwegian Church Aid, UNDP, USAID, Islamic ReliefAfghanistan & Pakistan, Serena Hotels South and Central Asia, Transworld and PTCL.

His areas of interest include strategy, system dynamics, systems thinking, project planningand management, research, monitoring and evaluation. In addition to his professionaloccupations, Dr. Moin is engaged in the governance of nonprofit organizations as chairmanand director for Aga Development Network institutions, affiliates and professional forums.

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Ilyas Inderyas

Designation: Founding Director

Organization: Al-Falah without Walls (AwW), Quetta Baluchistan

Cohort: 16

Work Phone: 0300-3850296


ProfileMr. Ilyas Inderyas is working as a Founding Director of Al-Falah without Walls (AwW) in

Quetta Baluchistan for the last 12 years. In fact, he established this organization for the

development, empowerment and mainstreaming of the marginalized and minority Christian

communities in Baluchistan. Being the Founding Director of AwW, Ilyass work port-folio

includes the overall conceptualization, planning, implementation, training, monitoring and

evaluation of the programmatic and institutional activities. Further, he also lead the training

of the core team of fellows of AwW and its institutional development process with the

development of its financial and programmatic policies, procedures and processes. Ilyas

has in fact, committed his life and career for the creation, sustainability and growth of a

Christian specific organization - AwW. Previously he has also worked for IDSP,BPEP and St.

Josephs Convent School.

Mr. Inderyas has been imparting various trainings and courses on youth development,

Human and Minority Rights with youth, parents and community at Quetta.

Mr. Inderyas has been a member of Youth Parliament of Pakistan. He is also a lead faculty

member of Institute for Development Studies and Practices IDSP Pakistan. During this

fellowship as a senior faculty member he had taught various courses on Culture, Spirituality

and Social Change, Imperial and Colonial basis of Leading Development Practices, Critical

Education, Pedagogy and Community Development. He is also a member of a nationalnetwork named as Vision - Pakistan. Under this network various religious minority

organizations are connected for a collective platform and voice.

Being an activist, Mr. Inderyas has been continuously providing leadership to transform thesituations of marginalized religious Christian minority community from marginality toDevelopment, empowerment and mainstreaming. This vital work is being carried outthrough the organization (Al-Falah without Walls AwW) that he established with like-minded young people for the last 12 years.

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Muhammad Hashim Ghilzai

Designation: Deputy Commissioner Quetta

Organization: Government of Baluchistan, Pakistan

Cohort: 16

Work Address: DC complex Inscomb Road Quetta

Work Phone: +92(0)819201406

Work Fax +92(0)819202193


Profile

Mr. Hashim Ghilzai is a civil servant working with the Government of Balochistan since 1999.

During this period he has mostly served in the far flung areas of the province and has gained

experience in public administration, community development, project management and land

revenue administration.

He has done his master in Land Management with specialization in Natural Resource

Management from Cranfield University England. He also holds two other masters in

Mathematics and Economics from University of Balochistan Quetta. Additionally he has

attended various short courses in various institutes around the world including University of

Maryland USA and Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre Bangkok Thailand.

Currently he is serving as Deputy Commissioner Quetta since January 2012. Prior to it he has

served Government of Balochistan on various important assignments like Deputy

Commissioner Gwadar & Kalat, additional secretary Agriculture & Service and General

Administration department and also served as Director Food Balochistan.

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Khuda Bakhsh


Organization: University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab-Pakistan

Cohort: 16

Work Address: Department of Environmental and Resource Economics,

University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab-Pakistan

Work Phone: +92 300 6693012

Email Address:[email protected]

Profile

Mr. Khuda Baksh is working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental and

Resource Economics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad-Pakistan. He is a PhD in

Environmental and Resource Economics from University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. He

teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students different courses relating to Environmental

and Resource Economics. Courses include Environmental Economics, Resource Economics,

Project Management and Evaluation and Principles of Economics. Research activities include

supervising and assisting research work of postgraduate students. Research work conductedunder his supervision comprises issues such as estimating health cost of cotton pickers,

resource use in Bt cotton production, evaluation of better management practices and causes

of migration in marginalized rural areas. Mr. Baksh is involved as team leader in data

collection for a project from various districts of Punjab and Sindh provinces and interacts with

different types of farming communities and to understand their common problems. He

completed his research project as Principal Investigator funded by SANDEE. Another project

on determining factors influencing balance use of fertilizer is in progress. Mr. Baksh has

published number of research articles in national and international journals. He has also been

presenting his research work on various issues at national and international levels in different

conferences and seminars. His 79 research proposals presented at South Asian. Mr. Baksh isalso an Awardee of the HEC Indigenous 5000 PhD Fellowship Program Phase I .

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Malik Naeem Asghar


Organization: COMSATS University, Islamabad

Cohort: 16

Work Address: Department of Management Sciences at COMSATS

University, Park Road ChakShehzad -Pakistan

Work Phone: 0333 47 30 893


Profile

Mr. Malik Naeem Asghar has done is Masters and PhD from Asian institute of Technology

(AIT) and The University of Hong Kong respectively which helped him focus on environment

and sustainable development. Mr. Naeem is a strong believer that sustainable development

can be achieved through tripartite action and cooperation between the state, civil society and

the business organizations. He has previously worked with AIT in the capacity of ProjectCoordinator and Researcher and senior project associate. Mr. Naeem has also taught courses

at AIT Thailand. Now being an academic at department of management sciences, he teaches

and sensitizes the future business managers about the role of business for achieving the goal

of sustainability.

Mr. Naeem has numerous publications on his name namely, Naeem, M. A. and Peach, N.

(forthcoming in 2011) Promotion of Sustainability in Postgraduate Education in the Asia Pacific

Region, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. Naeem, M. A and Welford,

R. (2009) A Comparative Study of Corporate Social Responsibility in Bangladesh and Pakistan,

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 16(2), pp. 108-122

Mr. Naeem is a member of International Society of City and Regional Planners.

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COHORT 15

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Dr. Mukhtar Ali

Designation: Public Health Specialist

Organization: The Program Support Unit, Peoples Primary

Health Care Initiative Balochistan, Quetta.

Cohort: 2010 -Cohort 15

Work Address: Off . Chaman Housing Scheme, Air Port Road, Quetta.

Work Phone: 081-2822660, 081-2822664

Work Fax: 081-2827635


Profile

Dr. Mukhtar Ali Zehri has an MBBS and a Masters degree in Primary Health Care

Management (M.P.H.M) deom Thailand. He has served at a variety of positions during his

professional career. He has provided oversight of midwifery school; developed training

courses and conducted in-service trainings; supervised district health programs and

worked in collaboration with District Government, Nonprofit Organizations and the DonorCommunity. He has contributed as member of the Task Force on PHC and District Health

Care System Management, Strengthening Programs and M&E. he has also worked as

Executive District Officer, Health, Khuzdar, with a focus to achieve policy objective of the

Government. He had provided District Health Care Management and Promotion of Health

Care Delivery System

As a trainer he developed training courses of District Health Managers on Health Care

System and is a Master Trainer on Gender and Focal Person on Gender Mainstreamed

gender in the curriculum of Management as part of the Institutionalization of Gender

Mainstreaming in Public Sector for the support of implementation of GRAPs supported byCIDA and ADB conducted training on Gender Mainstreaming on Project Cycle of

Department of Health.

Dr. Mukhtar currently serves as Focal Person Training and Gender at the Institute of

Public Health, Quetta.

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Dr. Razia Shahnawaz

Designation: CLMO/ Senior Lecturer

Organization: Institute Of Public Health, Quetta


Work Address: IPHQ Brewery Road Quetta

Work Phone: 9213205

Work Fax: 9213207

Email: [email protected]

Profile

Dr. Razia Shahnawaz is a graduate of Institute of Public Health, Quetta and has over the

years enjoyed a long and strong relationship with the Institute. Besides serving in

different hospitals and teaching undergraduate and post graduate students at Bolan

Medical College in Quetta, she is responsible for the development of Environmental Health

Cell & health education cell at the institute. Over the years she has gained vast

experience of public health particularly in areas of health education & environmentalhealth and primary health.

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Dr. Saira Afzal

Designation: Assistant Professor, Department of Community

Medicine

Organization: King Edward Medical University


Work Address: Nelagumbad, Anarkali, Lahore

Cell Number: 0334-4338525


Profile

Dr. Saira Afzal graduated from King Edward Medical University, Lahore and is currently

serving there as Assistant Professor in Department of Community Medicine. Till date she

has published 11 papers in national and international journals and has acted as both Co-

investigator and Principal investigator in different research projects. In the recent years

she has been actively involved in holding free medical camps in different villages with

Mother and Child Welfare Association (MACWA).

At present Dr. Afzal is pursuing her doctoral degree in preventive medicine and public

health.

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Dr. Seema Nighah-e-Mumtaz

Designation: Associate Professor & HoD,

Department of Community Medicine

Organization: Hamdard University


Work Address: Shahrae Madinat Al-Hikmah,

Muhammad Bin Qasim Avenue, Karachi



Profile

Dr. Seema Nigah-e-Mumtaz possesses over 15 years of teaching experience in health

care organizations/universities. Of these the last seven were spent in serving Pakistan

Navy. Managing health care organizations, academics and research are her area of

interest and specialty. Till date she has published 12 research papers in national and

international journals.

Dr. Mumtaz is presently working as the Associate Professor in Department of Community

Medicine at Hamdard College of Medicine and Dentistry, Karachi.

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Dr. Syed Muhammad Mubeen

Designation: Vice-Principal (Admin) and Associate Professor,


Organization: Hamdard College of Medicine & Dentistry, Hamdard

University




Profile

Dr. Syed Muhammad Mubeen has received postgraduate qualifications in Environmental

Sciences (MES) from University of Karachi and Public Health (MPH-By Research) from The

University of Melbourne, Australia. He also enjoys membership of College of Physicians &

Surgeons, Pakistan in Community Medicine. He also serves in the Editorial Board of

Journal of Pakistan Medical Association (JPMA), Journal of Mohammad Medical College and

Annals of Hamdard University. He has also conducted several workshops on MedicalWriting, Research Methodology, SPSS and EndNote Referencing software at various

medical colleges and institutions.

Dr. Mubeen is currently teaching the subject of Community Medicine to undergraduate

medical students in Hamdard University, Karachi. He also holds the position of Vice-

principal at Hamdard College of Medicine & Dentistry. He lists occupational health,

environmental pollution and tobacco control among his areas of interest and has 13

research publications both in national and international journals.

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Dr. Adil Faraz

Designation: Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Organization: Hamdard University




Profile

Dr. Adil Faraz is a graduate of Sindh Medical College, Karachi. He is presently serving as

Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine Hamdard College of Medicine &

Dentistry Karachi; and as Consultant Physician at Karachi Adventist Hospital.

Dr. Adil lists Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine among his fields of interest. He has

also co-authored a research paper.

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Dr. Syed Sanwar Ali Shah

Designation: Associate Professor,


Organization: Jinnah Medical and Dental College Karachi


Work Address: 22-23, Shaheed-e-Millat Road, Karachi



Profile

Dr. Syed Sanowar Ali is currently serving as Associate Professor in the Department of

Community Medicine at Jinnah Medical & Dental College, Karachi. Over the years he has

gained vast experience of public health particularly in the areas of, primary health care,community development, women & child health and the like.

In pursuance of his interest in studying the effects of environment on health, Dr. Ali is

presently enrolled in a doctoral program at the Institute of Environmental studies, Karachi

University.

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Prof. Dr.M. Irfan Ullah Siddiqui

Designation: Vice Principle

Organization: Bahria University Medical and Dental College


Work Address: 13, National Stadium Road, Karachi



Profile

Professor Dr. M. Irfan Ullah Siddique is a graduate of Dow Medical College, Karachi and is

the only person in Pakistan with four qualifications in the subject of Community Medicine -

FCPS, MPH, M. Phil and MCPS.

He possesses diverse experience in teaching at both undergraduate and post graduate

levels and has also visited Oxford University, England as guest lecturer. He has a sound

research background and as Chief Facilitator of College of Physicians and Surgeons,Pakistan has conducted more than 200 research workshops and dozen of SPSS

workshops.

Dr. Siddique has supervised more than 20 dissertations and around 100 research projects

and has had several papers published in journals of international repute. During the

course of his professional career he has also had opportunities of working with WHO and

UNICEF.

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Dr. Komel Zulfiqar

Designation: Senior Lecturer,


Organization: Islamic International Medical College




Profile

Dr. Komel Zulfiqar is a graduate of Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Lahore. She has been

affiliated with the private sector for the last several years and has served at various

positions. Presently she is serving as Assistant Professor in Department of Community

Medicine at Islamic International Medical College, Rawalpindi,

Environmental Health is Dr. Zulfiqars special area of interest and till date she has 2

research papers to her credit.

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Dr. Farah Rashid Siddiqui

Designation: Assistant Professor,

Community Medicine Department

Organization: Shifa College of Medicine




Profile

Dr. Farah Rashid Siddique completed her Post Graduation in Public Health (MPH) from

Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds, England in 2000. She has worked as

Public Health Manager for five years in North Kirklees Primary Care Trust, England. One of

the project was Peer Health education, which was nominated by the Department of Health

for Northern and Yorkshire Excellency Award, 2002 and also won Outstanding

Achievement Award, 2002in recognition of providing best smoking cessation service in

North Kirklees.

Dr. Siddique is currently serving as Assistant Professor in Shifa College of Medicine. Prior

to that she served in the same capacity in Islamic International Medical College, Riphah

University, Islamabad. She has multiple national and international publications and paper

presentations. Her main areas of interest include, health education and communication,

maternal and child health, research in public health and community oriented medical

education.

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Brigadier Dr. Maqsood Ul Hassan

Designation: Vice Principle

Organization: Army Medical College




Profile

Brigadier Dr. Maqsood-ul-Hassan graduated from Dow Medical College Karachi in 1980.

Commissioned in Pak Army since, he has been in charge of Army Health Units and also

been engaged as an instructor in the community. Having served in the Army for almost

30 years now, Mr. Maqsood is Associate Professor at Army Medical College and Head of

Department of Community Medicine at the Hospital.

He has had the opportunity to head the Medical Directorate Branches of both PAF and

Pakistan Army which deal with policy making and implementation of

preventive/community medicine actions. Mr. Maqsood has supervised more than a dozendissertations and has also served as an examiner for various institutions.

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Dr. Samina Mohsin Khan

Designation: Medical Officer/ Course Coordinator

Organization: Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences


Work Address: G-8/3, Islamabad

Telephone Number 051- 5153304



Profile

Dr. Samina Mohsin Khan is a public health specialist having seventeen years of diversified

work experience in academic settings, operations research and evaluation. During her

professional career she has worked with institutes like, UNODC, USAID, JICA, IRC,

UNHCR, WHO, DFID, Asia Foundation, Marie Stopes Society, Health Services Academy

and Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences.

She is the principal author of National Plan of Action and Strategic Guidelines for Elderlyof Pakistan, and has also written gender specific analytical papers on National Maternal

and Child Health Strategy of Government of Pakistan.

Over the years, Dr. Khan has contributed as researcher, analyst, technical and evaluation

expert, RH / training specialist, field manager and counselor to the area of Public Health.

Currently, she is coordinating Residency Training Program for postgraduate medical

students at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad.

In addition Currently she is working as coordinator for Internship, observer ship and short

training courses in Pakistan Institute of medical Sciences (PIMS) and also as incharge of

Private ward in Children Hospital, PIMS.

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COHORT 14

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Mr. Adnan Sattar

Designation: Freelance Development Researcher and Trainer

Cohort: 2009 - Cohort 14


Profile

Formerly Manager Training Unit with LEAD Pakistan, Adnan Sattar, now works as afreelance development researcher and trainer. He has been a consultant to the AmericanCentre for Labour Solidarity, Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development (PILDAT), South

Asia Partnership and other national and international organisations. Sattar holds a Masterin Human Rights from University College London and is particularly interested in exploringhow human rights and other moral concepts impinge on our interaction with environmentas individuals and as members of collectivises

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Arif Naseer Pervaiz

Designation: Multisector Specialist

Organization: USAID- Pakistan

Cohort : 2009 - Cohort 14


Profile

Arif Pervaiz works as Multisector Specialist with USAID-Pakistan looking after municipalservices, health, and energy. Prior to this, he worked as environmental and social

safeguards consultant with the Thar Coal and Power Technical Assistance Project. Arif hasalso served as the City Director of the Clinton Climate Initiative where the main functionwas to help foster and support development of energy efficiency and greenhouse gasemissions reduction projects. As a Country Manager for WaterAid Pakistan, in 2006-7, heestablished the country office, set-up financial and monitoring systems, developed countrystrategy and programme, networked with donors, relevant stakeholders and partnerorganisations, oversaw capacity building of partner organisations. In 2004-05, Mr. Pervaizas Senior Coordinator Policy at IUCN initiated and guided policy and advocacy work onwater, air quality management, international environmental agreements, and trade andenvironment. He took lead in establishing programme on air quality management in IUCN.As Assistant Programme Coordinator, Ecosystem and Livelihood Group, IUCN Regional

Office, Bangkok in 2004 he facilitated application of IUCNs programme planning andassessment systems. He ensured promotion of quality assurance in project developmentand devised a project portfolio tracking system.

In May 2002, Mr. Pervaiz completed a Masters in Environmental Management from theNational University of Singapore and another Masters in Management of Non-GovernmentalOrganisations, from London School of Economics in 1997. A Bachelors in Political Scienceand History from Rutgers University New Jersey, USA and a Bachelors in Commerce fromGovernment Commerce College, Karachi.

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Ayyaz Gul Kiani

Designation: Executive Director

Organisation: DEVNET Consultants


Email:[email protected]

Web: www.devnet.org.pk

Profile

Ayyaz Kiani is a senior development consultant specializing in public health. He has vast

experience of working with NGOs, media, federal and provincial governments and

international development agencies. He has a master's degree in public health from

University of Liverpool, postgraduate diplomas in business and social sector management

from University of Victoria, Australia and Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Mr. Kiani has undertaken consultancy and training assignments in Pakistan, Thailand,

Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Turkey, India and Uganda. He has experience of working

with the WHO, DFID, UNDP, CWS, USAID, MSH, PSI, Green star Social Marketing,

Universities of Amsterdam, Liverpool, Punjab and Balochistan. He represented Pakistan inthe 58th Health Assembly of the WHO in Geneva in 1998.

Mr Kianis public policy advocacy successful lead to a number of legislative and policy

changes in Pakistan including promulgation of laws regarding consumer protection,

prohibition of smoking in public places, protection of young child nutrition, and formulation

of national policies for medicines, provision of safe drinking water and sewerage

management services. He assisted the Supreme Court of Pakistan as amicus curie in a land

mark case related to policy and practice of the pharmaceutical sector in Pakistan.

He has also contributed as teaching faculty in University of Amsterdams international

courses and Centre for Health Management Sciences, Lahore. He has written extensively inprofessional journals and media and has the distinction of writing an editorial in the British

Medical Journal. He was editor of the most widely circulated public health magazine in

Pakistan for seven years. He has also edited the first public health publication in Potohari

language.

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Haroon Shuaib

Designation: Freelance Consultant

Cohort: 2009- Cohort 14

Cell Number: 92-334-4485085


Profile

Haroon Shuaib is currently working with FIRMS Project, an economic growth project of

USAID as the team leader of the communication team. This particular project is working to

strengthen small and medium enterprises and generate economic activity as an alternate interrorism prone districts of Pakistan with a special focus on female participation. Trained as

a documentary film maker, Haroon has worked for various development agencies on issues

ranging from gender, environment, and poverty alleviation to public health and

governance. Haroon has also worked for international television channels such as ITN-UK

and BBC.

Having worked to develop comprehensive 360 degree communication strategies and plans

for development programmes, Haroon believes that responsible mainstream media can be

a great agent for change and must play its role in positive societal change.

Sustainable development and community activism are his passions and he maintains that

effective, participatory and engaging communication lies at the heart of any durable social

and behavioral change.

Haroon likes to read, write, and paint for leisure and is married with two children.

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Malik Amin Aslam Khan

Designation: Executive Director

Organization: ENVORK



Profile

Malik Amin Aslam is currently serving as the Global Vice President of IUCN (InternationalUnion for Conservation of Nature) as well as being the UNDP-Climate Change advisor toPakistan. He has been engaged as a Climate Change consultant, for the past decade, andhas advised (through the UN) a number of countries, including Turkey, East Timor,Uzbekistan Malawi and Pakistan on the development of climate change policy with a focuson carbon finance. Concurrently, he is also been serving on the editorial board for theinternational Climate Policy Journal and the advisory board for the Plan Vivo foundation.He has a number of international publications on CDM and Emissions Trading issues to hiscredit and has been the lead author for the Pakistan National Sustainable DevelopmentStrategy (2012) as well as the Pakistan Climate Finance NEEDS study (2010).

From 2002-07 he has served as a Member of Parliament and from 2004-07 as the Ministerof State for Environment (Government of Pakistan) and, in this capacity, has been thearchitect of the CDM operational strategy in Pakistan. During this period Malik Amin Aslamalso worked as the Prime Ministers special envory on the United Nations Reform Panel forsystem wide coherence to provide input on reforms of the global environmental governancesystem. Malik Amin Aslam has also had the privilege of Chairing the G77+Chinanegotiations group during 2006/7. Politically, he is also currently developing a GreenDevelopment Strategy for a mainstream political party in Pakistan.

Mr Malik is an electrical engineer with an MBA from McGill University and an MSc from

Oxford University where he completed his thesis on the utility of the emissions tradingconcept within the context of managing the Climate Change issue.

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Mukhtar Ahmad Ali

Designation Executive Director and CEO

Organization Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives

(CPDI)

Cohort 2009 - Cohort 14

Email [email protected]

Profile

Mr. Ali is the Executive Director of Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives, (CPDI) a civil society organization that was established in September 2003. Varying from research,policy advocacy, and management to external relations, his focus remains on localgovernments, peace and tolerance, elections, rule of law, transparency and access toinformation, budget tracking and legislative/democratic development. He has also workedas the Executive Coordinator with the Consumer Rights Commission of Pakistan (CRCP) andas a Senior Research Fellow with the Area Study Centre, Quaid-i-Azam University andIndependent Bureau for Humanitarian Issues (IBHI). He has a list of research publicationsto his name.

As a recipient of the DFID- Shared Scholarship Scheme, Mr. Ali completed his M.Phil inDevelopment Studies with a distinction from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS),University of Sussex, UK in 2003. He has an M.Phil in International Relations with an A-grade from the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.

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Zubair Khurshid Bhatti

Designation: Director of Programs

Organization: The Asia Foundation



Profile

Mr. Bhatti is currently working as the Director Programs at The Asia Foundation where he issupervising implementation and development of programs in civil society development,

conflict resolution, democratic governance and gender empowerment. Mr. Bhatti wasassociated with Engro Chemical as the Public Affairs Managers, supervising governmentrelations, corporate communications, and corporate social responsibility.

As the District Coordination Officer for Jhang, Punjab Province in 2007-2008, Mr. Bhattiintroduced several governance innovations with one successful anti-corruption initiativethat received wide recognition in the national press. Mr. Bhatti also managed all devolveddepartments Education, Health, Agriculture, Works and Services, InformationTechnology, Community Development; also administering elections in Feb 2008 for elevenprovincial and six national assembly constituencies. Over his tenure, Mr. Bhatti has alsoserved in the governments of Sindh and Baluchistan. From 2002 to 2007, he worked with

the Asian Development Bank and Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy.

Mr. Bhatti has a Master in Public Policy from Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University,USA, and an MBA from University of Science and Technology, Beijing.

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Hina Salim Lotia

Designation: General Manager

Organization: Project Development Department, LEAD Pakistan

Cohort: Cohort 14

Work Phone: 92 51 2651511

Work Fax: 92 51 2651512


Web: http://www.lead.org.pk

Profile

Nobody excelled in LEAD as quickly as did Hina from an intern in 1999 to the GeneralManager Program Development Department in 2005 to Director Programs in 2012. LEADand Hina, both, have grown together. And now, she is literally the institutions memoryand a pillar but yet modest in her working, ready to help her colleagues and newcomers.

As head of the department, Hina would develop new programs/projects and interact withthe donors, clients, partners, fellows, associates, and board members to foster LEADs

objectives in sustainable development. She is working on programs that LEAD hasdesigned to create and sustain a leadership that could meet the challenges of climatechange. Her latest endeavor is LEAD Climate Action Program (L-CAP) a five yearinitiative to promote climate compatible development in the country.

During LEADs evolution, Hinas strengths were also used in such areas which added toher assigned challenges. She is now playing a strategic role in organizations policies. In2005, she played a key role in carrying out two strategic planning exercises at LEAD thatgave the organization a new road-map. She has been representing the institution atnational/international forums and also serving as a trainer at various events in LEADprograms.

Hina has a few worthwhile publications to her credit: Lund-Thomsen, P. Mansur, A. & H.

Lotia, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability of Donor-financed Interventionsin the South: The Case of Pakistan, in Rahbek-Pedersen, E. & H. Muniche, CorporateCitizenship in Developing Countries, Copenhagen Business School Press, Copenhagen,2006. She also prepared a Case Study on Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital andResearch Center which was published as part of the report: Investing in Ourselves:Giving and Fundraising in Pakistan published with support from Asian Development Bank,The Asia Foundation, Nippon Foundation and USAID.

Also a LEAD Fellow, Hina has a masters in economics from the Quaid -e-Azam University.A Virgo, Hina lives in Rawalpindi with her parents. Her father is a successfulbusinessman.
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Zofeen Tufail Ebrahim

Designation: Freelance Journalist

Profile

With a Masters in Journalism from the University of Punjab, Lahore in 1985, Ms. Zofeenjoined a womans English language monthly as an assistant editor, finally heading it as aneditor. Moving on to work with Dawn, Pakistans widely circulated English daily; she didpersonality profiles and investigative stories on development (urban, women andenvironment) issues. Leaving her job in 2001, she started working as a freelance journalist,contributing to dailies like Dawn, The News and a current affairs monthly magazine, Newsline. She also contributes to international wire services including the Inter Press Service,Womens Feature Service and Integrated Regional Information Networks, (commonlyknown as IRIN). Simultaneously she also took various consultancy assignments for anumber of NGOs and INGOs.

Ms. Zofeens work has been commended nationally as well as internationally for herwritings on development issues. In 2007, she was awarded the Green Media Award byTetra Pak for her story on how leak of a radioactive waste dump which was affecting thehealth of the nearby villagers and the complete indifference of the government to the issue.In February 2008, she was awarded Women Achievers Award (in the field of journalism) by

Indus Television Network for her writings on womens issues.

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Rehmat Karim

Designation: Head of Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Department

Organization:Strengthening Particpatory Organzation (SPO)

City: Islamabad

Telephone Number: (+92-51) 2104677, 2104679, 2104680

Cell Number: +923065154143

Email Address:[email protected] &[email protected]

Profile:

Mr. Rehmat Karim is the Head of Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Department at

Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO). Over last fourteen years, he has

undertaken multiple roles in the development sector. The most significant ones include

design, development, management, and monitoring and evaluation of multi-sectoral

projects. He has natural inclination to experiment application of new ideas, and tendency

for continuous learning. He is a self-motivated and goal-driven person, and has ability to

manage multiple teams simultaneously. He has participated in various national andinternational trainings and workshops on various developmental issues.
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Ahmad rafay alam

Designation: Adjunct Faculty

Organization: Property Law Hassan & Hassan Advocates



Profile

Ahmad Rafay Alam is an environmental lawyer with a decade's experience in corporate,

commercial law, litigation, regulation and environmental activism. He specializes in the

areas of natural resources, energy, water, environment and urban development. Mr. Alam

has served as the Chairman Lahore Electric Supply Company and is a Director of the Urban

Unit of the Government of Punjab and the Lahore Waste Management Company. Mr. Alam

is a member of the faculty of the Law & Policy Department at the Lahore University of

Management Sciences where he also conducts research with the Development Policy

Research Center. Mr. Alam is the Vice President of the Pakistan Environmental Law

Association and General Secretary of the Public Interest Litigation Association of Pakistan.

Rafay lives in Lahore with his wife and daughter. On the weekends, he helps organize

Critical Mass Lahore, a cycling initiative aimed to bring awareness about public transport

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Muhammad Uris Umrani

Designation: Director programmes -Devcon

Organization: DevCon

Work Phone: 051-4861212

Work Fax: 051-4438992



Profile

Muhammad Urs Umrani is presently working as Director of DevCon- an association for RuralDevelopment. He also works as an independent consultant with a number of organizations,such as OMV Pakistan, Ask Development and Save the Children - UK, Islamabad. Hepossesses extensive experience of working with NGOs, Community Based Organizations,and National and International development agencies in different cap

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